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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 21:25 EDT

Foxconn Building Nvidia Superchip Facility In Mexico

Foxconn has chosen Mexico for the site of the world's largest manufacturing facility for Nvidia's GB200 superchips. These chips are a "key component of the U.S. firm's next-generation Blackwell family computing platform," notes Reuters. From the report: "We're building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet," said Benjamin Ting, Foxconn senior vice president for the cloud enterprise solutions business group. Nvidia said in August that it had started shipping... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 20:45 EDT

Apple Potentially Facing Worst Leak Since iPhone 4 Was Left In a Bar

"Alleged photos and videos of an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with an M4 chip continue to surface on social media, in what could be the worst product leak for Apple since an employee accidentally left an iPhone 4 prototype at a bar in California in 2010," writes MacRumors' Joe Rossignol. From the report: The latest video of what could be a next-generation MacBook Pro was shared on YouTube Shorts today... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 20:02 EDT

KDE Plasma 6.2 Released

"Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems," writes longtime Slashdot reader jrepin. "Among other things, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release, Plasma 6.2." From the report: Plasma 6.2 includes a smorgasbord of new features for users of drawing tablets. It implements more complete support for the Wayland color... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 19:20 EDT

Teen Achieves First NES Tetris 'Rebirth,' Proves Endless Play Is Possible

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Months ago, 13-year-old Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson became the first person to "beat" NES Tetris, crashing the game after a 1,511-line, 157-level performance. Over the weekend, 16-year-old Michael "dogplayingtetris" Artiaga became the first to reach an even more impressive plateau in the game, looping past Level 255 and instantly rolling the game all the way back to the ultra-slow Level 0.... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 18:40 EDT

Brazil Unblocks X

X has been restored in Brazil after being shut down nationwide for over a month. According to court documents released today, X ultimately complied with all of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes' demands. "They included blocking certain accounts from the platform, paying outstanding fines and naming a legal representative in the country," reports NPR. "Failure to do the latter had triggered the suspension." From the report: Elon Musk's... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 18:00 EDT

Roblox Accused of Lying To Investors About User Numbers

Investment firm Hindenburg Research claims Roblox is "consistently overstating the amount of people on its platform by 25 percent to 42 percent or more." The Verge reports: Roblox, which went public in 2021, reported having 79.5 million daily active users in its most recent earnings report. However, Hindenburg claims Roblox "intentionally conflates" actual people with daily users, as that number could also include alt accounts and bots. The research alleges... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 17:20 EDT

MoneyGram Says Hackers Stole Customers' Personal Information, Transaction Data

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: U.S. money transfer giant MoneyGram has confirmed that hackers stole its customers' personal information and transaction data during a cyberattack last month. The company said in a statement Monday that an unauthorized third party "accessed and acquired" customer data during the cyberattack on September 20. The cyberattack -- the nature of which remains unknown -- sparked a week-long outage that resulted in... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 16:41 EDT

Red Dead Redemption Finally Comes To PC 14 Years After Its Original Release

Fourteen years after it debuted on PS3 and Xbox 360, and endless rumors later, Red Dead Redemption is finally coming to PC. From a report: It will hit the Rockstar Store, Steam and the Epic Games Store on October 29 with the Undead Nightmare standalone expansion included. Developer Double Eleven helped Rockstar with the port, which has many of the bells and whistles you'd come to expect from a PC... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 16:01 EDT

TikTok is 'Digital Nicotine' Meant To Hook Kids, AGs Fume in New Suits

The District of Columbia and 13 states sued social media giant TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of knowingly creating an addictive product and getting children hooked with "digital nicotine." From a report: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb brought Washington's suit in the Superior Court for the District of Columbia, asserting that the app's design -- including its algorithm, "infinite scroll," push notifications, filters and in-app currency -- boost the... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 15:22 EDT

Microsoft Veteran Ditches Team Tabs, Blaming Storage Trauma of Yesteryear

Veteran Microsoft engineer Larry Osterman is the latest to throw his hat into the "tabs versus spaces" ring. From a report: The debate has vexed engineers for decades -- is it best to indent code with tabs or spaces? Osterman, a four-decade veteran of Microsoft, was Team Tabs when storage was tight, but has since become Team Spaces with the advent of terabytes of relatively inexpensive storage. "Here's the thing,"... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 14:41 EDT

Virginia Congressional Candidate Creates AI Chatbot as Debate Stand-in For Incumbent

A long-shot congressional challenger in Virginia is so determined to debate the Democratic incumbent one more time that he created an AI chatbot to stand in for the candidate in case he's a no-show. From a report: Less than a month from election day, the race for Virginia's 8th congressional district is all but decided. The sitting congressman in this deeply Democratic district, Don Beyer, won handily in 2022 with... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 14:01 EDT

Samsung Apologizes For Making Just $6.8 Billion Last Quarter

Samsung has issued a rare apology after saying it expected to post just $6.78 billion in operating profit for the most recent quarter, about $900 million short of analyst expectations. From a report: "We have caused concerns about our fundamental technological competitiveness and the future of the company due to our performance falling short of the market's expectations," reads the statement attributed to Samsung Vice Chairman Jun Young-hyun. "Many people... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 13:20 EDT

Nintendo Switch Modder Faces Tech Giant in Court Without Lawyer

A Nintendo Switch modder has entered a legal battle against Nintendo without legal representation, Torrent Freak reports. Ryan Daly, alleged owner of Modded Hardware, denied all allegations in a lawsuit filed by Nintendo in July. Nintendo claims Modded Hardware offers hardware and firmware for creating and playing pirated games, as well as providing customers with pirated Nintendo titles. The company filed suit after Daly allegedly ignored warnings to cease operations... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 12:40 EDT

How Long Will Life Exist on Earth?

An anonymous reader shares a report: Wikipedia's "Timeline of the Far Future" is one of my favorite webpages from the internet's pre-slop era. A Londoner named Nick Webb created it on the morning of December 22, 2010. "Certain events in the future of the universe can be predicted with a comfortable level of accuracy," he wrote at the top of the page. He then proposed a chronological list of 33... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 12:00 EDT

Where Have All the Chief Metaverse Officers Gone?

Wired: Last spring, At an event in New York City, Robert Triefus, then Gucci's CEO of Vault -- the brand's virtual marketplace -- argued the recent deflation in hype around the metaverse was just a brief hiccup. "I see it more as a correction," he told the crowd. "We're now at a much more sensible place, where you've got individuals [and] companies ... who are very serious about what they're... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 11:20 EDT

Britons Urged To Dig Out Unwanted Electricals To Tackle Copper Shortage

Scientists have called for people to go "urban mining" after a study revealed that old cables, phone chargers and other unused electrical goods thrown away or stored in cupboards or drawers could stave off a looming shortage of copper. From a report: The research found that in the UK there are approximately 823m unused or broken tech items hiding in "drawers of doom" containing as much as 38,449 tonnes of... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 10:40 EDT

The Problems With Polls

Political polling, once hailed as a revolutionary tool for democracy, is facing a crisis of confidence amid high-profile failures and fundamental critiques. Data scientist G. Elliott Morris, Nate Silver's successor at FiveThirtyEight, has defended polling's relevance in a new book, arguing it remains crucial for revealing public opinion despite challenges like plummeting response rates and rising costs. But critics, including political scientist Lindsay Rogers and sociologist Leo Bogart, have long... Read more ›

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msmash @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 07:38 EDT

Nobel Prize in Physics Goes To Machine Learning Pioneers Hopfield and Hinton

John J. Hopfield of Princeton University and Geoffrey E. Hinton of the University of Toronto were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for their groundbreaking work in machine learning. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized the scientists for developing artificial neural networks capable of recognizing patterns in large data sets, laying the foundation for modern AI applications like facial recognition and language translation. Hopfield, 91, created an... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 06:00 EDT

Vision Pro's First Scripted Immersive Film Is Coming This Week

The first scripted Immersive Video project for Apple's Vision Pro debuts on October 10. Called Submerged, the film "invites viewers onto a WWII-era submarine and follows its crew as they wrestle to combat a harrowing torpedo attack." 9to5Mac reports: The short film was written and directed by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker. That makes it stand out from other Immersive Video Apple has produced to this point. The filmmaker, Edward Berger,... Read more ›

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 10/08/2024 03:00 EDT

Spacecraft Launches Toward Asteroid Knocked Off Course By NASA

The Hera spacecraft, launched by the European Space Agency on Monday, is on a mission to study the aftermath of NASA's 2022 test that successfully knocked the Dimorphos asteroid off course by intentionally crashing a probe into it. It's scheduled to arrive in December 2026. The BBC reports: The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST) on Monday. [...] The Hera mission, which is... Read more ›

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